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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by tptacek on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:45PM (#19819988)
Yes: if you go back in time, health care costs go down, because they've been rising rapidly over the past 20 years. But the only thing that happens at the point in time when the ACA passed is that the rate of growth in cost falls.
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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by ameister14 on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:02PM (#19820709)
That's not really true, though. Costs as a % of GDP went down from '05-06 and went up slightly from '06-07.

In real numbers, in 2008-2009, the increase in overall cost per year was actually lower than in 2014-2015, when the exchanges opened.

You're right that the rate of growth in Medicare cost fell after the ACA passed, but that's much more specific than overall cost delta.

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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by JamesBarney on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:30PM (#19822831)
Something very relevant happened in 2008-2009.
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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by tptacek on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:11PM (#19823070)
It also impacted prices all the way into 2012, by moving people out of full-time employment and onto COBRA, and by reducing the number of young people on health insurance plans.
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